#559.  Artist. —­ N. artist; painter, limner, drawer, sketcher,
designer, engraver; master, old master; draftsman, draughtsman; copyist, dauber, hack; enamel, enameler, enamelist; caricaturist.
     historical painter, landscape painter, marine painter, flower painter,
portrait painter, miniature painter, miniaturist, scene painter, sign painter, coach painter; engraver; Apelles[obs3]; sculptor, carver, chaser, modeler, figuriste[obs3], statuary; Phidias, Praxiteles; Royal Academician.
     photographer, cinematographer, lensman, cameraman, camera technician,
camera buff; wildlife photographer. 
     Phr. photo safari; “with gun and camera”

% 2.  Conventional Means Language generally %

     #560.  Language. —­ N. language; phraseology &c. 569; speech &c. 582;
tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King’s English, Queen’s English; dialect &c. 563.
     confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie[obs3]; pantomime &c. (signs)
550; onomatopoeia; betacism[obs3], mimmation, myatism[obs3], nunnation[obs3]; pasigraphy[obs3].
     lexicology, philology, glossology[obs3], glottology[obs3];
linguistics, chrestomathy[obs3]; paleology[obs3], paleography; comparative grammar.
     literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres[Fr], muses,
humanities, literae humaniores[Lat], republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius of language; scholarship &c. (scholar) 492. 
     V. express by words &c. 566. 
     Adj. lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual;
diglot[obs3], hexaglot[obs3], polyglot; literary. 
     Phr. “syllables govern the world” [Selden].

     #561.  Letter. —­ N. letter; character; hieroglyphic &c. (writing) 590;
type &c. (printing) 591; capitals; digraph, trigraph; ideogram, ideograph; majuscule, minuscule; majuscule, minuscule; alphabet, ABC[obs3], abecedary[obs3], christcross-row.
     consonant, vowel; diphthong, triphthong[Gram]; mute, liquid, labial,
dental, guttural. syllable; monosyllable, dissyllable[obs3], polysyllable; affix, suffix.
     spelling, orthograph[obs3]; phonography[obs3], phonetic spelling;
anagrammatism[obs3], metagrammatism[obs3]. cipher, monogram, anagram; doubleacrostic[obs3]. 
     V. spell. 
     Adj. literal; alphabetical, abecedarian; syllabic; majuscular[obs3],
minuscular[obs3]; uncial &c. (writing) 590.

     #562.  Word. —­ N. word, term, vocable; name &c. 564; phrase &c. 566;
root, etymon; derivative; part of speech &c. (grammar) 567; ideophone[obs3].
     dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, glossary; index, concordance;
thesaurus; gradus[Lat], delectus[Lat].
     etymology, derivation; glossology[obs3], terminology orismology[obs3];
paleology &c. (philology) 560[obs3].
     lexicography; glossographer &c. (scholar) 492; lexicologist,
verbarian[obs3]. 
     Adj. verbal, literal; titular, nominal. conjugate[Similarly derived],
paronymous[obs3]; derivative. 
     Adv. verbally &c. adj.; verbatim &c. (exactly) 494. 
     Phr. “the artillery of words” [Swift].